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Side Scroller

Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or jumping from left to right. Often includes platforming elements and side-view perspectives.

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Top free featuredtagged Side Scroller (40 results)

Explore featured games tagged Side Scroller on itch.io. Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or · Upload your featured games to itch.io to have them show up here.

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A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
Action
Play in browser
A side-scroller shooting platformer! Starring Nadine, the prototype android!
Platformer
Plan the perfect birthday party! Scavenge for foods, collect goods, and give the President the best party ever!
Adventure
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A combo-driven roguelite platformer where you shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book!
Platformer
Soldat meets Battlefield - side-view multiplayer shooter with procedural maps
Action
Play in browser
Action-packed Japanese-inspired retro SHMUP
Shooter
Roguelike in which you are the architect of the dungeon
Role Playing
Enjoy this textless journey, where all ideas are shared in icons and your powers of observation will be put to the test.
Platformer
A post-apocalyptic narrative-driven adventure.
Adventure
When the dead start walking, there's no where to run.
Action
An art driven, soul's like, side scroller
Adventure
Explore a mysterious world with a mysterious magical companion!
Adventure
Play in browser
Deff is a mercenary death that must hunt down other deaths that no longer want to be deaths...
Platformer
Action-Platformer about a man who is also a mango.
Platformer
Who's afraid of the pink bad wolf?
Action
Play in browser
Experience existential dread as the void beckons for you in this short atmospheric narrative about depression.
Interactive Fiction
A combination of Risk of Rain and Faster Than Light.
Action
You must speak with the raven...
Adventure
A short narrative adventure about a deserted half tower/half man. Alone in a world full of humans..
Adventure
A side-scrolling action adventure with strong storyline
Platformer
It's just you, and your clones, in this chaotic run and gun action game.
Action
Epic autoscrolling difficult platformer ! Can you survive the scrolling?
Platformer
Metroidvania style 2D action platformer
Platformer
Cyberpunk Arcade Shoot em Up - Pilot Version
Shooter
A game about a water girl
Platformer
2D Pixel art run and gun
Shooter
Ancient ruins, weird machines, impending doom...
Platformer
Play in browser
Underwater Exploration shooter (You know, That sub level in Super Mario Land)
Shooter
A Procedural Planet Exploration, Alien Fighting, Mining, Gem Collecting, DNA Collecting Pixel Art Space Adventure.
Action
A mouse-driven shoot 'em up for the rest of us!
Shooter
Narrative side-scroller about a working-class mother in 1979, Hong Kong
Simulation
Intense 80s style 2D shooter with a cyber psychedelic aesthetic
Action
Retro Metroidvania Side-Scroller
Platformer
Guide robot bounty hunter Tumbleweed through a Game Boy inspired wild west! Made in a week for GBJAM 4.
Platformer
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Deep in the church basement, demons lurk... Can you exterminate them all?
Platformer
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